Example sentences of "[verb] do to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 2 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 3 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Acre for acre the sea is more productive than the land , despite the damage human greed has done to the herring fishery , and threatens to do to the stock of mackerel as well . |
| 5 | The most famous instance is Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , whose ‘ Saturday ’ eclogue describes a woman in despair over the damage smallpox has done to her face . |
| 6 | The educated person is characterised less by what she can do , and more by what the process of learning and knowing has done to her . |
| 7 | The accused is able to assume an air of absolute innocence , and no matter what harm he has done to another human being , sometimes appalling injury , he frequently appears to be completely insulated from qualms of conscience . |
| 8 | The strongest reason for voting Labour was indeed its commitment to improving welfare , repairing the damage Thatcherism has done to the social fabric . |
| 9 | The ‘ fair works ’ of Nature provided Wordsworth with a contrasting background which showed up more clearly ‘ what man has done to man ’ . |
| 10 | Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ? |
| 11 | Society — for what it has done to those who are trapped by the forces of the big city . |
| 12 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
| 13 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 14 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 15 | Knowing what Edmund has done to his real father might have given Cornwall pause before proclaiming himself the next one . |
| 16 | ‘ I wish to tell you , ’ he said , ‘ of the harm and danger that religion has done to humanity , preaching hatred instead of the law of love . ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the damage which heroin use has done to working-class families is very much at odds with ‘ 1970s ’ British literature . |
| 18 | ‘ Then it 's something someone has done to you yes ? ’ |
| 19 | Let's face it , that is exactly what Britain has done to us . |
| 20 | F of X is what F has done to X. |
| 21 | It is no more than he has done to our people . ’ |
| 22 | What do you think the war has done to the possibility of a kind of a global settlement in the Middle East , particularly as far the Israelis are concerned ? |
| 23 | And look what our dog has done to her leg ! |
| 24 | Look what he has done to me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Look what this so-called government has done to my city , ’ she muttered . |
| 26 | Every person each plays a part in the familial deterioration , but no one can , ‘ help the things life has done to us . |
| 27 | This magazine as a whole attempts to provide some of that missing sense of movement by tracking down individual people that the NI once profiled to see what time has done to them . |
| 28 | Labour 's faulty fairness is something — Hon. Members should see what Basil Fawlty has done to hospitals as well as to hotels . |
| 29 | Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled . |
| 30 | Although the beef market is now in a better position , does not the hon. Gentleman realise the damage that he has done to beef consumption and to our farmers in the past year by constantly highlighting that issue on radio and television ? |